Book ID: CBB000773718

The Magnificent Flora Graeca: How the Mediterranean Came to the English Garden (2007)

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Harris, Stephen A. (Author)


Bodleian Library


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 189 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

Description On the two 18th-century expeditions of wealthy Oxford botanist John Sibthorp and the making of one of the most famous and expensive botanical volumes of the period.


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Authors & Contributors
Bleichmar, Daniela
Christina Harrison
LaBouff, Nicole
Studholme, Joseph
Gooding, Mel
Laurence Lippi
Journals
Science in Context
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Postcolonial Studies
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of Historical Geography
Publishers
Kew Publishing
University of Plymouth (United Kingdom
Yale University Press
William Heinemann
Thames & Hudson
Sutton Publishing, Ltd.
Concepts
Botany
Gardens
Scientific illustration
Scientific expeditions
Natural history
Horticulture
People
Banks, Joseph
Linnaeus, Carolus
Mutis, José Celestino
Hume, Amelia
Barrington, Jane
Watson-Wentworth, Mary
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Colombia
Spain
Bath (England)
Istanbul (Turkey)
England
Institutions
Paris. Jardin Royal des Plantes
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Linnean Society of London
Chelsea Physic Garden
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